Re:Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die
by Spooky23 on Friday April 24, 2020 @07:12PM
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This.
I worked on the customer delivery side of a $750M software project that was a steaming pile of shit, with critical defects that were known for a year with zero effort to address. The integrators were paid to deliver a spec, and it took about a year to get change orders created to diverge from the spec.
The old school waterfall outsourcing models are truly awful, but you don’t really understand how bad unless you’ve lived it. Stupid agile religious practices are dumb for any startup type org, but are probably better than the alternatives in many big enterprise scenarios, where the goal is chunk up the work so marginally qualified people can do something.
I worked on the customer delivery side of a $750M software project that was a steaming pile of shit, with critical defects that were known for a year with zero effort to address. The integrators were paid to deliver a spec, and it took about a year to get change orders created to diverge from the spec.
The old school waterfall outsourcing models are truly awful, but you don’t really understand how bad unless you’ve lived it. Stupid agile religious practices are dumb for any startup type org, but are probably better than the alternatives in many big enterprise scenarios, where the goal is chunk up the work so marginally qualified people can do something.